Abstract: A battery includes an outer wall having a through-hole defined by a peripheral opening edge, at least one cell having a positive electrode and a negative electrode, an electrically conductive terminal stud connected to the positive electrode or the negative electrode, including a shaft extending through the through-hole, and at least one clamping element sitting on the shaft and covering the through-hole, and forming an annular gap together with the outer wall, an electrically insulating and annular support element surrounding the shaft of the terminal stud in a sleeve-like manner, and having an outward-facing peripheral contact surface against which the opening edge of the through-hole lies, wherein the support element includes a glass or a ceramic, or a glass- or ceramic-based composite material, and a sealing element arranged concentrically around the support element in the gap between the clamping element and the outer wall.

Abstract: A method of producing an electrochemical cell includes introducing lithium into the electrochemical cell such that an amount of mobile lithium contained in the cell available for incorporation and releasing processes in electrodes exceeds, after formation, the capacity of at least one positive electrode for taking up lithium at least by a factor of 1.1, and the at least one negative electrode in terms of its capacity for taking up lithium is dimensioned to a size sufficient to be capable of taking up the entire mobile lithium contained in the cell after formation, wherein the lithium is introduced at least partially into the electrochemical cell via the at least one negative electrode by pre-lithiating the at least one negative electrode prior to combination with the at least one positive electrode or by applying metallic lithium on a surface of the at least one negative electrode.

Abstract: A battery includes a battery cell assembly, a battery management system, and including a switching device, wherein the battery management system includes a monitoring device that monitors parameters relevant to correct operation and safety, and the monitoring device includes a control unit coupled to the switching device such that it can interrupt a flow of current between the battery cell assembly and the voltage source.

Abstract: A composite material includes an electrochemically active organic material and an electrochemically active inorganic material. The organic material contains subunits according to formulae (I) and/or (II) wherein n is an integer not smaller than 2, Y represents an amide group (—NH—CO— or —CO—NH—), an ester group (—O—CO— or —CO—O—) or a urethane group (—NH—CO—O— or —O—CO—NH—), R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent H, alkyl (preferably —CH3, —C2H5), alkoxy-(preferably —OCH3, —OC2H5), -halogen or —CN, Ar1 and Ar4 independently represent a bridging aryl group, Ar2 and Ar3 independently represent a non-bridging aryl group, and R5 is a bridging alkyl, alkene or aryl group.

Abstract: A lithium battery includes a positive electrode designed as a hollow cylinder and defines a cavity, a negative electrode arranged in the cavity, a separator, a liquid electrolyte, a first current collector for the negative electrode, a second current collector for the positive electrode, an at least two-part housing that encloses an interior space in which the positive electrode together with the negative electrode arranged in the cavity and the separator are arranged, wherein a pin is provided as a first current collector inside the housing, a part of the housing serves as a second current collector, the pin has a first, terminal section embedded in the negative electrode and in direct contact with the negative electrode, and the pin has a second section not in direct contact with the negative electrode, and an insulator element that protects the second section at least partially against direct contact with the electrolyte.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell that generates hydrogen has an anode including an electrochemically oxidizable substance and an electrode designed for hydrogen generation as a cathode and an aqueous alkaline electrolyte. The anode and the cathode are designed such that the hydrogen generation begins at the cathode as soon the anode and the cathode are electrically connected to one another. At least one resistance foil is adhesively bonded to at least one outer side of the housing which, when it is connected as a load resistance between the anode and the cathode, reduces the current flow between the anode and the cathode and therefore also the gas generation rate.

Abstract: A lithium cell includes a housing including a housing cup, a cover plate and an annular insulating sealing element, wherein the housing has an end-side cup base, a circumferential housing casing and a circular opening opposite the housing base and formed by an opening edge. The cover plate has a circumferential edge and closes the circular opening. The cell includes a pin-shaped negative electrode current collector electrically connected to the cover plate. The sealing element is fitted onto the edge of the cover plate. The sealing element insulates the cover plate and the housing cup from one another. The cell can be produced by the components being brought together in two preassembled units combined to form the cell.

Abstract: A hydrogen evolution cell which on passage of an electric current liberates an amount of hydrogen proportional to an amount of current flowing through, includes an electrochemically oxidizable anode, a hydrogen cathode, an electrolyte and a casing surrounding the same, wherein the hydrogen cathode is associated structure of at least one pocket defining a hollow space or defines a hollow space in the presence of hydrogen overpressure or wherein the cathode forms such a pocket.

Abstract: A formed, secondary electrochemical cell includes at least one positive electrode containing a metal compound capable of reversibly incorporating and releasing lithium in the form of ions, at least one negative electrode containing a carbon compound capable of reversibly incorporating or releasing lithium in the form of ions, and/or a metal and/or semi-metal which can be alloyed with lithium, an electrolyte via which lithium ions can migrate between the at least one positive electrode and the at least one negative electrode, and mobile lithium available for incorporation or releasing processes in the electrodes, wherein capacity of the at least one negative electrode for taking up lithium is higher than that of the at least one positive electrode, the at least one negative electrode has a higher capacity than required for taking up the entire mobile lithium contained in the cell, and the mobile lithium is contained in the cell in an amount which exceeds the capacity of the at least one positive electrode for

Abstract: A DME-free lithium battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator arranged between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a liquid electrolyte composed of a solvent and at least one lithium electrolyte salt and with which the electrode and the separator are impregnated, wherein the solvent includes propylene carbonate (PC) as a first solvent component and 1,3-dioxolane (DOL) as a second solvent component, and the positive electrode and/or the negative electrode have a proportion of carbon black having a BET surface area of at least 1 m2/g.

Abstract: A button cell includes a housing consisting of two metal housing halves, an electrode separator assembly in the form of a preferably spiral-shaped winding inside the housing, and metal conductors which electrically connect the electrodes of the assembly to the housing halves, wherein at least one of the conductors is connected to the respective housing half by welding.

Abstract: A secondary electrochemical cell includes a negative electrode including an output conductor, activated carbon having a BET surface area of at least 800 m2/g as a carbon-based storage material that enables storage of electrical charge in the electrode through formation of an electrical double layer (Helmholtz double layer), a positive electrode including an output conductor, and nickel hydroxide and/or nickel oxyhydroxide, a porous separator that separates the negative electrode and the positive electrode from one another, an aqueous alkaline electrolyte with which the electrodes and the separator are soaked, and a housing that encases the electrodes, the separator and the electrolyte.

Abstract: An emergency system for power failures includes a single-cell or multiple-cell rechargeable battery selected from the group consisting of NiMH, NiCd, NiZn, Ag2O/Zn or lithium-ion, and a charging electronics system that charges the battery, wherein the charging electronics system provides a charging voltage at which the battery does not overcharge at a temperature of up to 80° C., and wherein the charging electronics system supplies a charging voltage at which the battery is transferred into a charging state and/or is kept in a charging state, in which the battery is charged to 5% to 30%.

Abstract: A button cell has a winding arranged in the cup-shaped, positive-polarity housing half such that one of the flat end sides points in the direction of the cup base, the circumferential outer side thereof bears against the circumferential cup wall and the outer side together with the cup wall forms a clamping zone in which the first current output conductor is clamped.

Abstract: A button cell includes a housing cup and a housing top separated from one another by an insulating seal and which form a housing with a flat bottom and a flat top parallel to it, and an electrode-separator assembly within the housing including flat layer positive and negative electrodes and connected to one another by a flat separator, wherein the layers are aligned essentially at right angles to the flat bottom and the flat top and the electrode-separator assembly is a spiral winding having end faces defining side surfaces of the spiral winding facing in an axial direction relative to the flat bottom and the flat top, and one of the electrodes connects to the flat bottom or the flat top via an output conductor including a thin film resting flat between an end face of the spiral winding and the flat top or the flat bottom.

Abstract: Metal-air button cells including a closed cell housing and, arranged therein, an air cathode and a metal-based anode separated from one another by a separator, wherein the cell housing is substantially composed of a first housing half-part and a second housing half-part; the housing half-parts are configured to be cup-shaped and have a base and a circumferential side wall; the base of the second housing half-part has one or more entry and/or exit openings for atmospheric oxygen; and the air cathode is configured to be disc-shaped and is positioned on the base of the second housing half-part such that it covers the entry and/or exit openings and its periphery bears on the inner side of the circumferential side wall of the second housing half-part.

Abstract: A method of producing a button cell having an anode including metal particles, including providing an anode mixture including as constituents metal particles, at least one binder, at least one conducting agent and, optionally, a gassing inhibitor, providing a button cell housing, introducing the mixture into the button cell housing, admixing the mixture with an electrolyte, and liquid-tight sealing of the housing, wherein the constituents of the mixture are contacted in the presence of water prior to introduction into the housing, and after the contacting the water is removed from the mixture at least partially.

Abstract: A button cell closed without flanging includes a housing formed of two housing halves including a cell cup and a cell lid, an electrically insulating seal separating the cell cup and the cell lid, an electrode-separator assembly including at least one positive and at least one negative electrode arranged inside the housing, metal diverters electrically connecting the at least one positive and the at least one negative electrode to the housing halves, and a thermal fuse connected to or integrated into one of the diverters.

Abstract: An emergency system for a motor vehicle having an onboard power supply system which triggers in an emergency a radio emergency call regardless of the state of the on-board power supply system of the motor vehicle, including a radio communication device that triggers the emergency call, a back-up battery including one or more electrochemical cells that supply the radio communication device with electric energy, and an electric heating device supplied with power by the on-board power supply system with which the back-up battery can be heated when its temperature is below or drops below a lower limit value, wherein the electric heating device is a heating foil including heating resistors laminated between electrically insulating foils and having a thickness <2 mm, and the heating foil is arranged in a substantially planar, two-dimensional contact to the electrochemical cell(s) of the battery.

Abstract: A button cell has a housing closed in a liquid-tight manner including a cup, cover and seal, the cell cup having a base, circumferential casing, an edge area connecting the base and casing, and an end cut edge, the cell cover has a base, a circumferential casing, an edge area connecting the base and casing, and an end cut edge, the cover is inserted into the cup with the cut edge in front such that the casing of the cup and casing of the cover at least partially overlap and form a double-walled casing area, the seal is arranged between the cup and cover between the overlapping casing area such that they are isolated from one another, and at least one hole passes through the casing of the cup in the area which overlaps the casing of the cover.